[zahma]

Start here: https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2020/p...

The answer is yes, and it is absolutely important. If plastics disrupt our endocrine system, then that touches every facet of our bodies from development, sexual health, mental health, disease, and more. We can’t underestimate the effects plastic exposure has on our health.

[XorNot]

That article is talking about plasticizers - small molecules added to plastics - not plastics as the source of risk.

This is the same reason "BPA-free" drink bottles are now a thing.

[throwanem]

The plasticizers are in the plastics, and the plastics are in our bodies. When the plasticizers leach out of the plastics, where do you think they can go?

[XorNot]

And if, in the case of BPA-free plastic, they're not their in the first place, what, do you imagine they spontaneously come into existence?

The point is that "plastic is toxic" people sure seem to have a lot of trouble being honest about their own sources.

[throwanem]

The point is that BPA-free plastics are used specifically in drinking bottles and the like, while micro- and nanoscale particles are liberated into the environment by all plastics - the vast majority of which, certainly all the widely used engineering resins, are not formulated on the assumption that they need to be innocuous.

(I assume that, four years after an airborne virus ran pandemic, no one need explained the inverse relationship between particle size and length of mean free path in air. I hope no one needs that explaining, at least...)

It may be true there is less risk here than some suspect, or it may not. It is certainly foolish to assume either without bothering even to investigate the question.